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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typical entitled DC government bureaucrats.  It’s all about their perks and other free stuff they can get.  It’s seldom about the people, the kids, the customers.  Putting parking ahead of play-space is selfish and disgusting.[/quote]

That’s absurd.  Do you know who cares about parking?  Hardy’s neighbors.  Do you think they would allow the school to *not* have parking?!

You know who else cares about parking?  The students, because the best available teachers to be interested in jobs at Hardy, not just the few candidates who happen to live within walking distance or along the Wisconsin Ave bus routes.

Do you even know how much parking Hardy has?  Not very much.

Do you know how much parking Maret has?  About 4 times as much as Hardy.

Do you know who has a site that can accommodate far more parking and athletic space than currently?  Maret and their 7 acres.  But they would rather squat on public resources and deprive less privileged kids than use their political capital and their strong ‘community’ ethos to work with their neighbors to solve their needs with their own land (like every other independent school does, except Lab). [/quote]

Lots of public schools don’t offer parking for teachers.  Are you saying that they aren’t getting the best teachers?[/quote]

If the alternative would be to not be able to drive at all, or have to pay significant amounts for parking (that woudl be the case at Hardy)?

Yes.  There would be a significant number of teachers who woudl self-select out of Hardy positions, and some of them woudl be better than the teaches at thge school.  In fact, many of the people who woudl need a car would be older, more experienced teachers who have kids and for whom mass transit isn't feasible, based on their other obligations.  [/quote]

The official DCPS policy now is not to provide off-street parking for school staff.  So why should Hardy staff get special treatment?  School space for kids, not cars![/quote]

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